[darcs-users] intermediate changes and vim patch editor

[Lev Lvovsky]

Hello,

I'm still a bit new to darcs, so I was hoping someone could recommend  
the best way to deal with the following scenario:

1.  I maintain two darcs repositories at work - one "public", the  
other "private".  The private repository is where I keep untested  
changes before pushing or pulling them to the public repo for others  
to retrieve.

2.  When leaving work, I pull my private repo to my laptop so that I  
can do work while not connected to the network.  The 'record's that I  
do at that point to my work repo are for lack of a better word,  
intermediate, meaning they're just something to write down and save  
my current changes, but generally I don't want other people to see  
these annotations.

3.  When I'm done and want to push to my public repo, I'd like for  
the "intermediate" changes, and their annotations to be combined into  
one effective patch, without all of the intermediate patches or steps.

Am I going about this incorrectly, or is there a better methodology?

Also I'm figuring that I'd like to edit patches directly.  One of my  
co-workers uses emacs which offers patch editing capabilities  
(splitting of hunks, etc), however I'm unable to find such  
capabilities with my editor of choice, vim - any suggestions?

thank you!
-lev